MirroredRepos/bat
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/sharkdp/bat.git synced 2025-10-31 07:04:04 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

explain how to use bat as cat (no paging)

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Stick
2020-11-20 11:25:45 -05:00
parent 2b82203041
commit ba5cbe208f
1 changed files with 6 additions and 6 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

12
README.md
View File

@@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ characters:
### Automatic paging
`bat` can pipe its own output to a pager (e.g `less`) if the output is too large for one screen.
By default, `bat` pipes its own output to a pager (e.g `less`) if the output is too large for one screen.
If you would rather `bat` work like `cat` all the time (never page output), you can set `--paging=never` as an option, either on the command line or in your configuration file.
If you intend to alias `cat` to `bat` in your shell configuration, you can use `alias cat='bat --paging=never'` to preserve the default behavior.
### File concatenation
#### File concatenation
Oh.. you can also use it to concatenate files :wink:. Whenever
`bat` detects a non-interactive terminal (i.e. when you pipe into another process
or into a file), `bat` will act as a drop-in replacement for `cat` and
fall back to printing the plain file contents.
Even with a pager set, you can still use `bat` to concatenate files :wink:.
Whenever `bat` detects a non-interactive terminal (i.e. when you pipe into another process or into a file), `bat` will act as a drop-in replacement for `cat` and fall back to printing the plain file contents, regardless of the `--pager` option's value.
## How to use